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Joel and Ellie are running from hunters, and she's in worse shape than she lets on. Joel helps her out.
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To Love is to Bury by princess_sansa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Jan 2026
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Survival is the name of the game, her heart and soul left buried beneath apple trees. But a chance encounter with a smuggler and his cargo changes everything for her.
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In which Joel Miller and Bridget Adams met in rather unconventional circumstances in the early days of the Boston QZ, going from somewhat enemies, to friends, to almost lovers before that all fell apart. Bridget disappears, with Joel loosing hope of ever finding her again. After four years of desperately searching, he and Ellie stumble across a cabin to hold up in for the night, hoping to find the supplies they've been desperately seeking and a safe place to rest. Joel however, comes to also find the one women that he hasn't been able to get off his mind for all these years.
Or in which Bridget realises that she just can't seem to let her past go.
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After saving a little girl’s life, you’re thrust into her and her father’s small cabin oasis. She wants to be your friend. He wants nothing to do with you. Fighting for a better life, you’re forced to reconcile your differences, battling against a world wrought with monsters and raiders.
Because while they might not be family, they’re the only ones you’ve got.
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Savior Complex by Logan_Howlett2003
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Jan 2026
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He felt his rib cage tighten around his lungs and suddenly his previous morality was choking him. She couldn't be his problem. He couldn't handle another responsibility, Sarah could never be anything other than his first priority.
"Dad... please,"
And yet... if anyone could ever convince him to do anything, it was going to be her. Her pleading brown eyes, brimming with tears at the idea of this girl being left out in the cold was ripping through him with a response he didn't want to give.
"For how long?"
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Or... Sarah convincing Joel she needs a sibling.
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- Part 1 of Savior Complex
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it ain't me, babe by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Jan 2026
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Ellie’s eyes lit up. She tightened her palms around the embroidered patches of Mars, Venus, and Earth on the straps of her backpack and then quickened her pace as fast as her little legs could take her. The image of the house grew closer.
It was an old farmhouse. Vines clung to the faded, wooden siding. A porch wrapped around it, the paint chipped. There was a large willow tree in the front yard. A tire swing hung from an especially large branch. Ellie’s thoughts were immediately consumed with how much she wanted to ride it. The night breeze brushed her bare arms, nudging her along.
TLDR// Toddler Ellie comes across a haunted house while running away. In it, she finds a nice, though grumpy, ghost, Joel. For the first time in twenty years, he feels alive, looking after her when no one else ever has, the entire time terrified he'll lose another little girl.
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THE LAST JOURNEY (JOEL MILLER-THE LAST OF US) by Acer_Wolfe
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), tlou - Fandom, Pedro Pascal - Fandom, joel miller - Fandom, tommy miller - Fandom, ellie tlou - Fandom
22 Jan 2026
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After a series of tragic loss Joel Miller travels far and wide surviving on his wits and experience. Always moving forward despite the unforgiving environment he encounters because a quest keeps him going in his journey. (From the game The Last of Us and the live action TV series)
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Joel Miller and his family are on a flight when there is a nuclear attack on the USA, and they have to find their way across a couple of states trying to survive. They meet Tess and her son, as well as two little girls traveling alone.
The Jericho / The Last of Us (TV) fusion no one asked for
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- Part 7 of AU-Gust 2025
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2003 - After the sudden passing of her parents, Margo Kennedy is making it one day at a time. They left behind their family home, a hardware store, and Margo's younger sister, Daisy. Margo is simply trying to make it-Tending to the store, making sure Daisy gets into university, and keeping her misanthropic neighbor Bill on his toes. When the outbreak begins Margo's once predictable life transcends into absolute chaos.
2007 - On a winter’s day, Margo finds herself alone on a supply run. Then, she has an unsuspecting run-in with a man and woman called Joel and Tess. Guns raised, and ready to kill they take what they can from Margo. She manages to get away alive-Little does she know that this won’t be the last time she sees them.
2023 - Margo finds herself traveling alongside Joel Miller, a friend with the task to deliver an immune teenage girl, Ellie, to a group called the Fireflies.
REVISIONS: start date 1-13-2026
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One Shot Joel Miller x reader | The Last of Us - Joel Miller x oc by flipper_le_delphin
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (TV) RPF
11 Jan 2026
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When the world collapses, loving becomes a danger.
This series of one shots Joel Miller x reader / x OC explores what remains when everything collapses: anger, desire, attachment.
Inspired by the game and the HBO series (Pedro Pascal).⚠️ Warning ⚠️
Some chapters contain explicit sexual content.
🍓 = chapter with sexual scenes
🍯 = chapter without sexual scenes (but may contain violence, fights, suspense, etc.)1. Let Me Be Your Eyes...and More🍓(smut) Joel Miller x oc
2. The Smell Of Burnt Honey🍯Joel Miller x oc
3. No Light, Juste Us🍯Joel Miller x oc
4. Bound by a Burning Chaos 🍯Joel Miller x oc
5. Part 1 of Stuck Between Two Miller (Joel x oc x Tommy)
6. Part 2 of Stuck Between Two Miller (Joel x oc x Tommy) (Smut)
- This work is a fanfiction. I do not own the characters, universe, or reserved rights. All rights belong to their respective creators. -
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"you'll be alright. no one can hurt you now."
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survival is one thing.
staying alive is one thing.
but living is something completely different. and for the longest time, there's been little (if any) reason to stay alive all these years since the outbreak.
but what happens when getting fucked over by a business deal turns into an unexpected journey and then... more?
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"come morning light, you and i'll be safe and sound" -
Too Alike to Love Each Other (More Than Acceptably Mild) by babelbabblebee
Fandoms: Next to Normal - Kitt/Yorkey
07 Jan 2026
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"Was I imagining things, or did you get dropped off?” The irony of her wording isn’t lost on either of them. It earned Diana quite a look from her daughter, making it all worth it.
“Henry drove me. The car is in the shop.”
Diana probably should have asked about the car, but she didn't. Instead, she smiled, "And how is he?”
At that, Natalie flushed. It was a terribly endearing thing. She tucked her chin to her chest, suddenly finding the spoon she used to stir her coffee riveting. “He’s Henry.” She said, and then eventually, “So, good.”
Or: Three times Natalie Goodman needed her mom (and the one time they met for coffee)
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Joel and Tess are heading out to Bill and Franks when their lives become entangled with an injured young woman who needs their help.
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She learned how to survive on her own, living by instinct and caution. Trust is a liability she can’t afford, but isolation has its limits.
When Joel Miller finds her, she doesn’t beg for help. She sizes him up, challenges him, and forces him to make a call he swore he never would. Against his better judgment, he takes her back to the Boston QZ to work with him and Tess.
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when Joel falls for the wrong girl, at the wrong time
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The world ended, but people didn’t. Not entirely.
Twenty years after the outbreak, survival has become second nature. But when Althea agrees to help smuggle a girl across the country, everything shifts. There’s Joel: quiet, brutal, impossible. The gruff, closed-off man with blood on his hands and grief in his bones. There’s Ellie: foul-mouthed and sharp-eyed, with too much riding on her small shoulders. And there’s Althea, stuck somewhere between running from her past and crashing headfirst into a future she never dared to want.
Love isn’t safe. Hope isn’t smart. But some things are worth the risk.
Because in the end, it’s not about what you’ve lost,
but what you’re willing to fight for,
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The Last Of Us| Younger Days by Grrrckck
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (TV) RPF
07 Dec 2025
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Joel, a smuggler, and Ellie, an immune little 5 year old kid, who travel across the United States after a fungal infection devastated society. Their journey becomes a brutal fight for survival as they navigate a world with infected humans and hostile survivors while Joel is tasked with escorting Ellie to the Fireflies, a resistance group who believes her immunity is the key to developing a cure.
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Ever since Sarah... well, ever since Sarah ten years ago, Joel's stayed as far away from kids as he can. Just the sight of one is practically enough to send him into a panic attack.
But then Tommy signs them up for a contracting job at a high school as a favor to an old army buddy.
And then there's a little girl in the front office, who somehow appears in the coffee shop Joel visits because the motel's coffee machine is shit.
Most damning is when Joel goes in to do some work at three in the morning and that same goddamn little girl is asleep in his construction zone and, when he wakes her up, says she's homeless.
Next thing he knows, she's asleep in his motel bed and he's filing foster parent paperwork.
What the fuck just happened?
(Foster parent AU! Featuring Joel Trying His Best And FailingTM, Ellie annoying local man and his friends & family into adopting her, and Tess/Joel as a lil treat for the masses.)
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Henry gets bitten instead of Sam, and as a result, he makes Joel promise to save Sam before taking his own life. Which means Joel has to try to get across the country with a severely-ADHD 12-year-old and a deaf 8-year-old.
(It's fine, though. Everything's fine.)
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How to Have a Family In The Apocalypse by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
02 Dec 2025
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Nine years into the apocalypse, Joel has five kids to look after - and he's never been happier.
(Fix-it drabble of after the Outbreak.)
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My Brother’s Widow by SvenskaChica
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Dec 2025
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In December of 1890, the Russian Flu crossed the Atlantic and made landfall on US soil. Within five weeks, the pandemic had spread throughout the entire country, leaving no community unscathed. Joel Miller’s wife and unborn child were counted among its many victims.
Angry at the world and consumed by grief, Joel swore he’d never love again.
Life had other plans.
Or: Tommy is killed in a farming accident, leaving behind a young, pregnant wife. Joel follows through on his promise to look after her.